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WaveThree Session integrates a full application sharing module call ShareApp, which can be easily accessed from the main interface control panel or through a simple keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F4).

Application sharing allows any participant to show any application running just as if it was used on that participant screen.

Though the module is very straightforward it remains not as easy to use as it could be due to ambiguous labeling and counterintuitive steps to launch an application sharing session.

Once ShareApp is launched the user can select whichever specific application open on her computer, if not the complete desktop, to be easily shared with the other meeting participants.

Once the application to be shared is selected the user must click on the Join button to effectively have her application broadcast to the other meeting participants.

Performance of this module is not impressive even under ideal circumstances. Screen refreshes take a considerable time and the presenter cursor can hardly be followed when it moves in real time.

There are no fine controls to optimize the application sharing session directly. The only related function available inside the Preferences menu allows the presenter to set the video output feed to be downgraded to a much slower frame rate anytime an application sharing is concurrently being run.

There is no option to control the color depth settings (number of colors used), nor one to manage the refresh rate at which the presenter screen is polled and broadcast as an image to the other participants.

Actually there is a basic refresh rate control available on the ShareApp interface that one can use to select/deselect “fast refresh”. It may not seem like much, but it is available.

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Posted on October 24, 2003 at 09:17 AM

Updated on December 07, 2004 at 07:10 PM

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